Emad Ibrahim

Blackjack Simulator

What’s a better way to get ready for a gambling trip other than write a blackjack simulator?  I am no blackjack expert but one of the strategies I heard off is to double your bet every time you lose.  So, if I start with a $100 bankroll and play $10 hands then I lost the [...]

Display a Dictionary/KeyValuePair as Grid in WPF

Every time I work with WPF, I constantly think “I hate this shit” and “why is everything so damn hard”, but once I figure it out, I realize how powerful it really is and what I can really do with it.  I remember starting out with WPF and trying to figure out how to bind [...]

Subversion (SVN) to Mercurial and TeamCity

Every time I think I got all the tools I need and I have a killer setup, something comes along that makes me question it all.  I am referring to mercurial.  For some reason, I have just heard of mercurial from TekPub.  I don’t know why I never heard of it before.  Probably because I [...]

Serialize Object To Clean XML

I hate all the junk that gets added when serializing object to XML, so here is a quick way to do it cleanly. Here is the dirty way: public static string Serialize(this object obj) { string XmlString = String.Empty; using (var memStream = new MemoryStream()) { var serializer = new XmlSerializer(obj.GetType(), string.Empty); using (var xmlText [...]

Select Random Records Using Nhibernate

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